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• n  the father of your father or mother

• And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps.
• Instead of sitting the children down for a reading of The Little Engine That Could, some gramps will tell them, "Once, kids, there was a thing called harmony.
• Busloads of grannies and gramps swarm the main street, called Jizo-dori, even on the windiest winter days, to pray for good health, shop for food and clothing, and socialize with .

• grandfather
• granddad
• grandad
• granddaddy
• grandpa

News & Articles

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• Adrian ‘Junior’ MacDonald
  BOWDOINHAM — Adrian “Junior, Gramps and Poopie” MacDonald, 77 of the White Road, died on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was born on Dec. 19, 1935, in Mt. Chase, the son of Adrian and Emma MacDonald. Junior was a member of the Bowdoinham Snowbirds and Somerville Snowmobile Club. read more
  July 1, 2013 - The Times Record

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Times Higher Education
  She doesn't always know what to make of me,Barack Obama writes of his wife, Michelle, in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. "She worries that, like Gramps and the Old Man, I am something of a dreamer."
• Gil Troy in FOXNews
  In 1915, you might have had Granny and Gramps living [at home] as well as more little 'uns scampering about,Troy told LiveScience in a recent e-mail interview.
• Dana Murzyn in Calgary Herald
  I still think we'll have to keep calling him gramps,said Murzyn, who was not at the convocation.